POWAY: Mom pleads guilty to robbing Temecula banks

Roxanne Pennock sentenced to two years in prison

A Poway mother of five children was sentenced Thursday to two
years in prison after pleading guilty to robbing two Temecula
banks.

Roxanne Pennock, 37, remains free on $25,000 bail. She was
ordered to surrender herself at the French Valley courthouse on
Jan. 19.

Her attorney, Jared Hartman, requested Pennock remain free until
then, and prosecutors did not oppose the motion, said John Hall, a
spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney's office.

Pennock remains under suspicion in two Poway bank robberies. San
Diego County prosecutors are reviewing the case against her,
district attorney's spokesman Paul Levikow said.

Before Thursday, Pennock had faced charges of robbery and
burglary for her heists at Chase Bank on Temecula Parkway on Nov. 6
and at Bank of America, also on Temecula Parkway, on Oct. 22, but
she agreed to plead guilty to robbery, and the burglary charges
were dropped.

Each robbery charge represents a strike under the state's three
strikes law, Hall said.

In her last known robbery, Pennock passed a demand note to a
teller and then fled in a red minivan, Riverside County sheriff's
officials said. She was arrested on Interstate 15 near Highway 76
in San Diego County after an officer spotted her car.

In the Bank of America heist, witnesses said she threatened to
use a weapon.